Last year, guided by American College Cricket President Lloyd Jodah, McGill student Muhammed Tayyab Zafar began a hardball team, and applied for official status at the McGill Athletics Department, which was granted.

With new uniforms, the McGill team then travelled to Florida, and played in the 2011 American College Cricket Spring Break Championship for the first time as a team.

Part of the mandate of every American College Cricket club is to raise the profile of the game in mainstream media – this report by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp demonstrates that the McGill guys are doing their part: